Hip-hop gives 'Peace' a chance
 Music Video Director Michael King, right, films Suffolk County Sheriff Andrea J. Cabral, center, as she walks with the hip-hop group 4Peace during the filming of a music video at the Suffolk County House of Corrections. (Boston Globe Photo / Josh Reynolds) |
When Antonio Ennis pulled his controversial ``Stop Snitchin' " T-shirts off the shelves of his Dorchester store in December and started making ``Start Peace" T-shirts, he didn't stop there.
The hip-hop artist joined with three other local artists in December to form 4 Peace. Yesterday, Ennis, Wyatt Jackson, Edo.G, and Deric Quest, all from Roxbury and Dorchester, filmed part of the music video for their first single ``Start Peace" at Suffolk County House of Correction.
Eleven inmates in beige and blue jumpsuits served as extras, sitting at tables playing card games and dominoes and peering out from locked cell doors.
``If we, start peace, right here, right now, we can teach the world just how, possibilities up in the clouds," the group rapped as prisoners flashed peace signs while dancing on a corridor overlooking the cafeteria
``We're all affected by the violence that's out here," Edo.G said. ``We got to make the change."
The group hopes hip-hop's popularity will help their message reach local youths, who have been especially affected by the violence.
``If you can use this music to sell thug life, you can use the music to dispel the fantasy that thug life is glamorous," said Suffolk County Sheriff Andrea J. Cabral, who was filmed walking in the jail yard with the four artists.
Both the single and the music video will be released in mid-August.
YUXING ZHENG 
